Category Archives: memory

Dear Friends,
we’re not quite sure what happened with that last year, and if anybody has seen it, please let us know. In the meantime, we are proud to return from our involuntary hiatus with a splendid new issue – mono.kultur #40, no less – with the wonderful British ceramicist, artist and writer Edmund de Waal.
Edmund [...]

Microsoft is turning 30 which, in human years, must translate into something like 120 or so. To celebrate the occasion, The Guardian examined Microsoft’s interface design of the past three decades, and gosh, how time passes.

The legendary Glasgow-based record store Volanic Tongue is closing after ten years activity! Run by former Charalambides member Heather Leigh Murray and her husband and writer David Keenan, it was a very relevant place for experimental music. Specializing in new, second-hand & rare underground music and sub-cultural ephemera including books, magazines and DVDs. After closing [...]

The long planned tribute to Arthur Russell Master Mix: Red Hot + Arthur Russell is now available to listen! The 26-track collection includes covers by Robyn, Blood Orange, Hot Chip, Sufjan Stevens, Devendra Banhart and many more. The tribute has been put together by AIDS charity Red Hot. Stream the compilation in full via npr!

Architect Zaha Hadid recently revealed the design of the Sleuk Rith Institute in Cambodia; a center for the commemoration of the Khmer Rouge era. The new institute will not only house the vast archives but also provide educational and cultural platforms including a graduate school focusing on human rights, a library and a museum as [...]

[live tv] #049 Pt. 1-2 Death Grips – Guillotine from RaRaRa / Light & Noise on Vimeo.
As some may know–and more should know, Death Grips just announced their break up yesterday–for real this time. For four years they brought a barrage of hardcore noise-rap, ferocious performances, and a give-no fucks attitude that pushed the [...]

Indie animation mainstay since “My First Crush,” (2007), her plaintive ode to infatuation, Julia Potts has in the last seven years only grown as an artist. Her most recent offering, “The Event,” places her wry melancholy and signature animal-like creatures into landscapes that merge live-action images of Montauk and hand-drawn animation. The digitalized special effects [...]

With Spanish master architect Ricardo Bofill as the subject for our new issue mono.kultur #36, we’re going to focus on a few highlights of his singularly prolific and versatile career spanning five decades, since so many of his projects are just such good fun to examine.
And where better to start than at the mythical La [...]